Standardized classified-ad-copy blank



B. L. SMITH.

STANDARDIZED CLASSIFIEDAD-COPY BLANK.

APPLICATION FILED JULY I6. 1918.

I. .37?55. Patented May III, 19.21.

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STANDARDIZED CLASSIFIED Al-COPY BLANK.

APPLICATION FILED JULY I6, I9I8.

LWN/@55D Patentedk May MI, 192K.

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B. L. sMlTH. STANDARDIZED CLASSIFIED AD-COPY BLANK.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 15| |918. 123779855. Patented May MI. 192k .5. I v 3 SHEETS-SHEET 3.

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i 'BASEL L. SMlTlElI, OF PHLADELPHA, PENNSYLVANA.

'STANDARDLZED CLSSFlED-AlD-COPY BLANK.

i 7 i i Speccation of Letters Patent. jlgatgmffd ilay imp? Mugla Application nledl July 16, 191%. Serial No. 345,174.

To all whom it may Concern:

Be it lrnown tliat l, Basri. la. Satiren a citizen ot tlie United States, residing in Philadelphia; Pennsylvania, liave invented Standardized eClassifiednld-Copy Blanks,ot irliicli tlie following isa specification.

@ne object oit imT invention is to provide a blank or torni particularly designed Jfor tlae use ot' tlie classified advertising department of ang,Y newspaper"7 which sliall be of such a structure and include sucli a combination ol printed niatter with blank spaces as sliall prima-ril;Y render possible tlie standardization et tlie operations necessary in connection with the Writing, registering, censor? ing, typesetting? printing, checking., charging tiling, ing o'l classied advertisements.

l further object of the invention is to proride a blank having tlie above characteristics irliicli sliall render possible tlie greatest practicable simplication oi', and result in a material reduction in7 tlie labor and equipment required in connection with tlie ivorlr ot tlie classied advertising departnient oit a nen'spaperg-tlie invention conn teinplating such a structure of tlie lilanlr as `will alloiv` ot tlie duplication ot certain data as it is lacing noted lay tlie newspaper emploi/ee taking tlie adrertisenient. tlie sulosequent separation oi tlielvarious sections or arts ot the Zolanlr for use in tlie rarious departments ot the paper and tlie ultimate `tiling oi certain or rill of said parts tor 'future reference.

Tliese objects and other ,advantageous ends attain as hereinafter set ortlif, rei?- erence beingn `had to tlie accompanying draw ings. in irliicli.

Figures l and 2 are respectirely plans oit die tiro sides ,ot an aol-copy blank inade in accordance `Witli in i/ i rention; and

Fig. 3 is a plan oi a niodiiied torni oit tlie blank.

Referring to tlie alioredrarringsi, tlie slieet of paper or irliicli eacli olinay ad-copy blanks `is formed may loe described as consisting ot tliree horizontally elongated niain sections. of ivliicla tliat indicated at l occupies in tlie present instance, the lower part the sheet and is ruled with a series of horizontal lines tor the reception ot tlae advertising niatter Wliicla it is desiredtol have publislied in a newspaper or other pulilication. At the top ot this section l l prererabliy print certain direct1ons `for tlie user resoliciting, and charge-collect of the lilankfand these in tlie present instance consist of tlie words llrite your ad below-Want-adtaker 1will lill out torni above.7 Y Elie data section 2 olimy lolanlr occunies, in tlie present instance', approzriniatelytlie iniddle one-third portion ci the sheet and consists of two portions 3 and el, ol sulostantially equal Width, respectively to tlie right and lett ot a center vertical line. These portions may loe described as the boolrkeeperls and receipt sections respectively. y l

The third main section of iny lolanlr occupies, in the present instance, approximately tlie top third oit its area, and like 'the data section, consists ol' tiro parts 5 and '6 separated or dividedl oy a line @@-a ot vertical scoringin continuation of tlieline @v1- w1 dividing or deiining tlie two portions 3 and l ot tlie data section 2. This or turn-over section -f-t is separated from diev data section by a line ot horizontal scorv ing1 y-y so tliat it may not onlylie conreniently turned laaclr and over into a position under and immediately adjacent tlie data section9 but may likewise lie easily torn or separated therefrom. By reason 'oil tlie scored fr at line., tliis turn-over section may also easily loe separated into its two parts 5 and "6.

lllie receipt portion l of tlie data section 3 llas tliree horizontal :iones or groui or printed inatter i, Send 9 ent/ending across it9 in tlie presentinstanc@ from side to side.,

ot which :the lirstl or outermost zone, its

klett hand end? includes a `rertical column l0 oit terras indicating' tlie character oi tlie advertisement Written in tlie acl-copy section l., :in tire case .illustratedlq tliis column contains sin termskloluntaryy Solicitedfl Locali7 lloreignf Transientwand Contract,$7 indicating tlie source and charged rate or tlie advertisement.Written loelow.

ident adjacent tliis column is a narrow colunen ll containingthree terms indicating tlie particular issue oit the paper in Wliicli an advertisement is lirst to appear7 loeing abbreviations tor tlie Words Morning Evening and Sunday Nest adjacent tlie colninn il in tlie zone Y is a. Wider colunan 12 leaving tliree lines or spacesa at one end of which appear tlie terms Words, Linea and lnclies7 respectively., designed to sliorv tlie volurne or space ol the advertisement. Between Ltliis column l2 and the lll@ 'Mld

right hand side of the zone 7 are tworecby asquare figure and having within its lower portion a small square, adjacent which are-the words Broken time.7 l

The time or calendar zone` 8 consists, in the present instance, of four horizontally eX- tending lines 15, 16, 17 `and 1'8 of printed A matter for the indicating of the month, days and dates. of the printing of the advertisement. The topmost of these contains the customary abbreviations of the names of the months of the year, the lines 16 and 17 contain the numbers 1 to 31 inclusive indica-A tive of the days of the month and, in the present instance, includes also a space in which are the letters 'l". F spaced in the line'18 at the bottom of the calendar zone 8 are the abbreviations of the names of the seven days of the week. l'

The lowest zone 9 of the receipt section is, in thepresent instance, for designating thev classification and indexing term of the advertisement. 1t has at its right hand end a space 19,inclosed by a rectangular figure, at the top of which is printed the word Classification and at the bottom has a relatively smaller rectangular ligure adjacent which is the wordv General Between the classiication space 19 and the left handend of 4 40. y the top a relatively broad. zone divided into and 2d in' .which are the zone -9 is a relatively large space 20 having atv its top the designation lndexing termi The bookkeepers section 3 ot my blank furnishes data necessary orent'ering the chargel for the advertisement, and has at four substantially square spaces 21, 22, 23 printed the words Paid, Charge, Entered and Register respectively. Below-thesev spaces are four'elongatcd spaces 25, 26, 27 and28 defined by horizontal ruled lines, ci which the rst two .have at the left hand ends the words Advertiser and Address respectively, while the two latter in similar positions have printed'in them the words Ad given by and Address in ad.- At the right hand end ot the rst ol these latterl spaces is printed the word Telephone and in a similar position in the Space 28 are the l words Ad talker.

i vertisement.

l Below thespace 28, at 'the bottomV ot the bookkeepers section, is a relatively wide f elongated space 29 bearing the caption ln-4 structions to compositor, at the right hand end ot' which are three smaller elongated rectangular spaces 30, 31 and 32 used in recording data aboutre-solicitation of the ad- Of these the two first contain the words Results and New copy re- Uniformly spective1y,while the .last contains the words Reordered and Times The rear surface of the data section is, inthe present instance, preferably provided with a carbon coating in order that any matter written or impressed upon its front face 'p shall be transferred to or duplicated upon a surface engaging it, although as shown in Fig. 3, instead of thus carbonizing the rear face of .the data section, l may insert or include between it and the turn-over section 5 6, a. sheet 50 of carbon paper, and if dey sirable, may provide lines of scoring, indicated at y-y1, in order that it may be conveniently torn od and discarded after. use.

The turn-over section 5 6 has its rear face provided with printed matter identical in substance and arrangement with that on the front face of the data section, so thatl when turned under the latter by folding it along the line of scoring y-Q any particular space or zone of the data section will lie immediately over the corresponding space or zone of the turn-over section.

Under conditions of use the blanks above vertisement over the counter, writes or permits the advertiser to write, the desired copy oradvertisement upon the ruled lines vin the space 1 and thereafter notes in the spaces 25 and 26 the name and address of the advertiser, also filling in, it desired, the

space 27 either with the telephone number ot the advertiser or with the name of his agent. lso on tlieboolkeepers section is noted the cost ot the advertisement, which it paid for in cash, is inserted in the space i 21 or i1" charged, in the space 22. This same amount is also noted in lthe space 141 of the receipt sectiong-it being understood that prior to any entry ot written material on the data section, the turn-over section 5-6 M0 is folded under it so as to receive from the' carbon backing duplicate entries of the matter noted on the data section. ln the space 28 of the Vboolrlreepers section is also entered any address given in the advertiseu n vment and the name or number or the employee taking the ad. @n the receipt section are enteredu the instructions given by the advertiser in relation to the dates, the number of timcs'and'lw" the issue of the paper in which the advertisement is to appear. vFor example, if the ad is toappear three consecutive times, the number three is placed in the space 13. 1f

however, it is to appear on days which are not consecutive, a check mark is placed in the rectangular space adjacent the words Broken time and one of the terms in the column 11 is marked to indicate the particular issue of the paper in which it is desired the advertisement. l ikewise on the line 1.18,]y

the names ot one or more of the days of the week are crossed or checked to correspond to the dates noted inthe lines 1.6 and if? and in the space is Written the particular` -Word or phrase indicating the term under which the particular advertisement in space l is indexed or classified. lt will be understood that the various' possible subjects or heads .under which advertisements may be classified are numbered tor purposes ot con,`

, a receipt. rthe part 5 oit the turn-over sec- K lenient reference, preferably in numerical order, and the `number or the classification I in which any advertisement belongs is placed in the space i9. A v

lCrosses or check marks are also made ad- ,s n jacent one or each adJacent palr of the three pairs ot vvords in the column l0 in order to indicate Whether the advertisement is rol-l untary or solicited, `Whether it is ot local or ot foreign origin and Whether itv is ot the transient class or is covered by a previously made contract. y

llfhen the above material has been entered on the data sheet together with any adstyle instructions in the space 29, the turnover section is detached therefrom along the line ot scoring y-y and is again torn along 'the line ot scoring :v the section (i being then given to the advertiser or his agent as tion is retained .by the atl-copy taker. T he data and acl-copy sections are delivered tirst to 'the register clerk and thereafter are torirarded to the composing room.

is `will loe obvious to those skilled in the art, 1with the record provided by the data and acl-copy sections on the one hand and by the bookkeepers portion 5 ot the turnorer section 5-G on the other, not only is the labor in connection with the bookkeeping and checking ot any particular advertisement reduced to a minimum, but anycinformat-ion regarding any particular advertisement may be obtained at any time with the utmost ease alter the advertisement blank has once been filled out;-it being understood that after any particular adver- Itisement has appeared in the paper for one Larnaca yso that it also appears on the corresponding sect-ion of the portion 5. rl`he date of entry of the advertisement is also noted in the space 23, and in case said advertisement is paidy tor by the advertiser at the time it is delivered to the newspaper office, the section 6 is preferably stamped in any suitable manner to show such paymentreceived.

By rny invention the advertiser is given a duplicate of the data required and utilized by the newspaper in displaying his advertisement on any particular day or number of days and this record not onlyv serves as a receipt for the payment of the charge nwhich it indicates but shows both the classi- ,licatiom name and number under which the -advertisement will appear 1n any particular issue ot the paper. By reason of this construction and arrangement of the material on the form or blank, the chances of errorare reduced to a minimum and all information required for any particular adv vertisement lis concentrated in a form Where the reception of a written ad and the. other end section and the middle section each being vertically divided and provided "with printed matter to constitute a receipt. section and a bookkeepefs section, the said printed matter on the tivo sections being similar in subst-ance and arrangement but upon opposite *faces ot the sheet, a dividing line between the latter two sections such that when the end section is folded back thereon against the middle section the corresponding printed matter upon the respective sections is brought into registration, and carbonized material upon the back ot vthe middle sectiont'or transferring to the said end section matter Written on the middie section Twhen' the said end section is folded thereunder.

2. A standardized classiiied acl-copy blank consistingoie a sheet formed of at least tiro horizont-ally extending sections ot which one is blank and the other is vertically dirided and provided Xwith printed matter to constitute a receiptsection andY a bookkeeperls section; the receipt sect-ion having a time zone provided with spaces printed' With time indicating symbols and the bookkeeperls section having designated spaces tor charges made :tor data Arelative to an advertiser.

V3. A. standardized classilied adv-copy7 blank consisting of a sheet formed of three horizontally extending sections.` one end sec tion being blank for the reception of a written ad and the 'other' end section and the middle section each being vertically divided and provided with printed matter to constitute a receipt section and a bookkeepers section, the said printed matter on the two 5 'sections being similar in substance a d arrangement but upon'opposite faces of the sheet, and aline of scoring between the latter two sections such that when the end section is folded back thereon against the middle section the Corresponding printed 10 matter upon the respective sections is brought into registration.

In witness whereof I alix my signature.

- BASIL L. SMITH. 

